[aprssig] China Has Hijacked WA8LMF.com !! 2

[Randy Love]

Ham calls are good for the Chinese because they aren't limited to having
the internet url making sense to English readers ( as, well, the majority
of the Chinese population doesn't speak English, so sensical URLs to
English speakers aren't a concern ).

How do I know this?  Someone in China hijacked my WF5X twitter id a few
years back...
I knew it happened because I started getting twitter updates for my account
in my Gmail addr associated with it in CHINESE.
Had to get a new one with more than just WF5X in it.

Randy
WF5X


On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 11:22 AM wa7skg <wa7skg at wa7skg.com> wrote:

> Sounds like time for a strike mission?
>
>
> Lynn W Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote on 9/28/21 7:59 AM:
> > Sometime yesterday, BG0GE-6 quit injecting the old packets.  But I
> > checked just now and they're back!  But this time, it's only going into
> > firenet and not the mainstream APRS-IS.
> >
> > And I spoke too soon.  As I was typing this message, the packets
> > starting showing up in both the APRS-IS and firenet again.  And now
> > they're back to firenet only.  Maybe their configured APRS-IS server is
> > disconnecting them?  Who knows.
> >
> > But according to my APRSIS32 packet counter, he's been steadily gating
> > 1800-2000 packets per hour for the past 8 hours (as far back as APRSIS32
> > summarizes).
> >
> > BG0GE-6 via THIRD+
> > 9600&1200 Baud Nucleo-TNC TEST
> >
> > I+G: 70+1692 74+1825 74+1996 76+2047 72+2071 76+2013 74+1999 74+1831
> >
> > Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 9/27/2021 6:46 PM, Stephen H Smith via aprssig wrote:
> >> On 9/27/2021 6:20 PM, Kenneth Finnegan wrote:
> >>> Looking at Internet Archive, it looks like wa8lmf.com
> >>> <http://wa8lmf.com> has been dead for months if not years with
> >>> various domain parking on it:
> >>>
> >>> http://web.archive.org/web/20210609210446/http://www.wa8lmf.com/
> >>
> >>
> >> For some years, I used both WA8LMF.com and WA8LMF.net .   One time
> >> WA8LMF.com  expired and a slimy domain squatter grabbed it
> >> instantly.   Not willing to pay the scammer to get it back, I
> >> proceeded to use just WA8LMF.net and forget about the .COM version.
> >>
> >> [Actually, by the original scheme of things on the Internet, .NET is
> >> more appropriate anyway since I am doing communications operations on
> >> the Internet- not running a commercial business. Actually, I only used
> >> .COM in the early days of the Internet because so many people at that
> >> time thought EVERYTHING on the web had to end with .COM.]
> >>
> >> I assumed that the squatter would ultimately tire of paying for a
> >> domain as unique and un-saleable as a ham call.  It never occurred to
> >> me that someone would actually buy it.....
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> So the lesson here is to make sure that you don't let the
> >>> registration for any domains you care about expire and sit
> >>> unregistered for a long time, because these sorts of sites will sweep
> >>> them up if there's any decent number of links to them... they
> >>> probably weren't banking on your APRS comment back in the day, but
> >>> here we are.
> >>>
> >>> *I strongly suspect that this domain registration has nothing to do
> >>> with BG0GE accidentally gatewaying their TNC test runs onto the
> >>> APRS-IS*. I've emailed them directly to stop I-gating the LMF CD.
> >>>
> >> I would have thought the same thing EXCEPT that the BG0GE-6 igate is
> >> now including the WA8LMF.COM domain in their comment..   Also, his
> >> email addy is BG0GE at 163.com .      163.com is one of the links on the
> >> home page of the porn site.
> >>
> >> Again, I am baffled.  Why would one want to flog a porn site with an
> >> obscure ham call sign?
> >>
>
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